Improved wash-boiler



nted tzttws II. PAGKER AND G. W. PACKER, .OF SANDWICH, ILLINOIS.`

Letters ,Pa-tent No. 96,473,11atac1 November 2, 1869.'

IMPROVED WASH-BOILEVR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all n hom it may concern Be it known that we, H.'1ACKnu und G. W.P.\CKF.R, ot' Sandwich, in the county ot' De Kulb, and in the Stute of Illinois, hure invented certain new und 'uset'ul Iinprm'enu-uts in waslhoilers; und do herebyl det-lure thnt the following ,is :t full, clean', und exzuft dest-ription thereof, reti-rence being.: had to tli'e :woonipzniying drawings, sind to the letters ot' reference uuu-kerl thereon, marking u. pnrt of' this specitiention.

The nuture ot our invention consists in the constrnetion und ,ei-neral nrrmigenient ot'zl, steun) clotheswuslu-r, to be plzwed inside ofzt wash-boiler.

In order to ennble others skilled -in the ett to which our invention a .ppertuns, t0 make and use the suine, we will now prot-eed to describe its construetion :ind operation, referring to the annexed vdrewings, in whieh- L Figure 1 is n. side elevation, :md

Figure 2, u plan view of our invent-ion. n

Figure 3 is u bottom view of one end of thelsame.

A represents a, dninond or cone-shaped bottom, having un upright tube, B, in the centre, ot suitnble height.

At the upper endof the tube B is nhorizontnl tube, 0,'the sides und ends ol whieh'are pextbruted with u -niunber ot holes, distributing the water eqnullyover the entire snrt'zree of the clothes.

Onthe upper side of the bottom Ais 'erected mi open rack, D, to rest the clothes upon, and keep them entirely above the waiter,4 thus lforeinfgr the wnter t0 pztss'entirely through the i-Iotlu-s in passing bzwk to the bottoni. Also giving the steam t'rom the witter under the rui-k u chzuiee to uuton the velothes. p

At its ends, the bottoni A is eut with .notches or openings a. n, so, :ts to nllow the water to poss beek under the bottoni. v A

Near these openings (t a, in the bottom A, are

vplaced tllree-rornered pieces b b, to prevent the water ti'oui escnping out ot' the apertures :tt 'the' ends, as it otherwise would when it begun to expend, instead of `passing up the tube B.

llnving thus t'ully described our invention,

W`hnt. we claim us new, and desire to secure by Leif 

